Question: Which is the brightest planet?
Answer: Venus
Question: Where is the High Court of Madhya Pradesh located?
Answer: Jabalpur
Question: To which religion does the sacred text *Analects* belong?
Answer: Confucianism
Question: Which Asian animal, currently on the verge of extinction, is considered the most critically endangered?
Answer: The Dhole (Asiatic Wild Dog)
Question: What causes the sweet taste in fruits?
Answer: Fructose
Question: What is the effect of global warming on mangrove forests?
Answer: They grow in greater abundance.
Question: Who won the 15th Nehru Cup tournament?
Answer: India
Question: Which state ranks first in the Educational Development Index report?
Answer: Kerala
Question: Who authored the recent book *Kurukshetra to Kargil*?
Answer: Kuldeep Singh
Question: What is the subject of the Srikrishna Committee report?
Answer: The demand for the creation of the state of Telangana.
Question: Which language was chosen as the newest official language of the United Nations?
Answer: Arabic
Question: How many spokes are there in the *Dharma Chakra* (Wheel of Law) of the national flag?
Answer: 24
Question: If a magnet were to possess a third pole, what would that third pole be called?
Answer: A consequent pole.
Question: If a resistor is elongated, what effect does this have on its resistance?
Answer: Its resistance increases.
Question: Which variety of wheat is most famous in India?
Answer: Durum wheat
Question: Which grain was the first to be cultivated and utilized by humans?
Answer: Wheat
Question: Where is the Central Drug Research Institute of India located?
Answer: Lucknow
Question: Which of the following determines the chemical properties of an element?
Answer: The number of electrons.
Question: What accounts for the higher boiling point of water compared to hydrogen sulfide or hydrogen chloride?
Answer: Hydrogen bonding.
Question: In which food source is Vitamin A found in abundance?
Answer: Carrots
Question: What is the mass of 10 moles of water? Answer: 180 grams
Question: Lumen is a unit of…?
Answer: Luminous flux
Question: What is the series of lines connecting places that vibrate simultaneously called?
Answer: Homoseismal lines
Question: What is the study of lakes called?
Answer: Limnology
Question: What was the name of the Marathi saint associated with Shivaji?
Answer: Sant Tukaram
Question: With which city does the Grand Trunk Road, built by Sher Shah, connect Punjab?
Answer: Multan
Question: To which English monarch was Mumbai given as a dowry for marrying a princess from a foreign kingdom?
Answer: Charles II (The princess was from Portugal)
Question: Who is credited with destroying the ‘Chihalgani’—a group comprising some of the most powerful nobles?
Answer: Balban
Question: What type of organisms form the base of a grazing food chain?
Answer: Producers
Question: People who consume alcohol in excessive quantities often die due to…?
Answer: Cirrhosis
Question: At which location are railway coaches manufactured?
Answer: Perambur
Question: Which criterion is *not* used for the classification of human races?
Answer: Ear shape
Question: With what subject is the Flood Commission concerned?
Answer: Floods
Question: In which country were ballot papers used for the first time?
Answer: Australia
Question: In which year was the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women declared?
Answer: 2001
Question: Economic planning is an essential feature of which type of economy?
Answer: A socialist economy
Question: What did socialism succeed in achieving?
Answer: Equitable distribution of income within society
Question: In inscriptions, which king is referred to as the “Beloved of the Gods”?
Answer: King Ashoka
Question: To which country was the journalist Kuldeep Nayar appointed as a High Commissioner?
Answer: The UK
Question: In which system of government is a bicameral legislature an essential feature? Answer: Federal System
Question: Who was the first Indian to be elected as the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth?
Answer: Kamalesh Sharma
Question: In which year was the National Commission for Minorities established?
Answer: In 1992
